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Trail: Become inspired to drive around and find Views
continued from page A—38
Keep your eye out for another,
rougher forest road that branches off
in a sharp right diagonal. It should be
obvious that this road leads toward
the hill. (If you miss it, you soon
enter a deep stretch of boggy forest,
then come to another gate and
Route Turn around and go
to the turnofi“ you missed.)
Once you make that sharp right
turn, you are on your way to the view-
point. Once more the road will “Y”
you should bear left. You’ll come
to a dead-end with a world—class View.
Please take a moment to feel some
gratitude toward nature, God and
wildland fire fighters for the glorious
green forest in all directions. Oh, and
pick up any litter you find. ,
. Now, if you back out and follow
that last right branch, you will ascend
the hill higher for another, but less
optimal, view. From hgre it is a short
climb to the top. I did not climb it,
but I imagine the very best views are
from up there.
Next time, right?
The main thing I want to impress
on you, dear readers, is that you
will need a good 4-wheel-drive ve-
hicle with high clearance to make it
up the last part of this trip — most
particularly the last right at the last
“Y”' Road engineers dug rainwater Deforested hilltop near Price
Lake provides perfect view of Mount Ellinor, Mount Washington and the
still-grow-
culverts as deep as bathtubs on this f “Th 1- u - i k
hill, scouring the road behind humps mg Silhouette o e raveier below Mount
Washington s pea . n anced courtesy p oto by George 8 en erg
as high as 10-inch logs. It is very easy shore of Price Lake; you may also
forest walk. You, too, can become a Things Are.” He lives in Potlatch
with
to bottom out on these obstacles if you become inspired to drive around and
Traveler. his “0n the Trail” column appearing
don’t have the right kind of car. find more views from nearby 2,500-
every other week in the Shelton-Mason
)astly, I recommend you check foot Dow Mountain. I Mark Woytowich is a
writer, 7 County Journal. Reach him at his
out the whole route on Google Earth. Catch the next sunny day and go
photographer, video producer and website, www.wherewaterfallsare.com,
You’ll see how close you are to the for a drive, topping it off with a
brisk author of “Where Waterfalls and Wild or by email at
eyefive@hctc.com.
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